McCain consultant Patrick Hynes notes that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t put up an ad that focused on Obama’s “clingy” comments without testing the message on a focus group first. He concludes, “you can rest assured they tested the hell out of it and found out the religion messaging hurts Sen. Obama badly and the word ‘bitter’ (which does not appear anywhere in the ad) is immaterial.

UPDATE: “Bitterness” does appear in the ad, mentioned by one of the (presumably Hillary-supporting) ordinary Pennsylvanians. But note that wasn’t the part of the quote that the ad didn’t feel the need to spotlight.

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